Handmade pottery mugs can be made using a variety of clays and glazes. Pottery is finished by being fired in a kiln. The temperature of which is dictated by the clay and glaze materials.
Potter, Converse Fields, makes his mugs using porcelain and high fired glaze materials.
High fire over 2200° F eliminates toxic materials so that you can rest assured that each handmade pottery mug is safe to use with food products including coffee, tea, and soup.
Handmade Pottery Mugs For Sale
Converse sells his handmade mugs locally at Embellishments of Steamboat Springs, Art In The Park, and Etsy.
As a full time potter, mugs are a major part of Converse Field’s production.
His mugs are all wheel thrown, one-at-a-time, and finished one-at-a-time.
The glazes are carefully crafted recipes of minerals which have either been developed by Converse or handed down from other skilled potters. His glaze recipes range from a few weeks old to over 100 years.
Handmade Pottery Coffee Mugs
Coffee mugs become very personal.
Initially the shape and the color can draw your attention to the handmade pottery coffee mug.
Handling the mug can tell you if you would enjoy sipping your coffee out of it daily. It’s shape. How it feels in your hand. If the handle is pleasing to your grip. If you can wrap your fingers around the body of the cup.
These things are all considerations of a well designed coffee mug for your personal use.
Best Handmade Pottery Mugs
The best handmade pottery mug is the one you are drawn to.
Wheel thrown mugs are individually made. Even two mugs made as a set with the same materials, to look the same, will have subtle differences.
The colors, the shape, the size of the handle. The weight of the mug. The overall size.
The color can vary depending on where it was positioned in the kiln.
Choose the one you like best, and you will never go wrong.
Unique Handmade Coffee Mugs
What makes a wheel thrown, handmade coffee mug unique is a varied as the potter who creates them.
If you think about it, everybody’s hands are different. Finger strength is different, hand size is different. The clay itself is different.
An artist may be inspired differently from day to day. Converse does a mix of matching sets. Some forms are the same for years at a time, but there will never be a true duplicate with one-of-a-kind mugs, that’s why each mug unique.
Each clay artist not only brings their physical properties to the clay, but also their personal aesthetics for size shape and color. They also bring their skill as a potter and a glaze artist to the making process of each coffee mug.
Coffee mugs can also have decorative techniques in painting and shape.
To see more samples of coffee mugs made my Converse Fields, visit his Etsy shop today.